Badge-button.



No. 647,759. Patented Apr. I7, I900.

A. PHELPS.

BADGE BUTTON.

(Application filed Oct. 7, 1899.) (No Model.)

UNITED STATES,

PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUSTUS PHELPS, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

BADGE-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 647,? 59, dated April 17, 1900.

Application filed October 7, 1899.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 'l, AUGUSTUS PHELPS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Badges; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertainsto make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and. to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in that class of badge-buttons represented by those shown in my prior patents, No. 604,213, of May 17, 1898, and No. 626,035, of May 30, 1899, the objects of the present. improvements being to allow a limited hinge action to the pin, whereby the badge-button may be more conveniently applied to the garment; to reduce the cost of construction; to obtain a stronger and more durable hinge connection, and to secure other advantages and results, some of which may be referred to hereinafter in connection with the description of the working parts.

The invention consists in the improved badge-button and in the arrangements and combinations of parts of the same, all substantially as will be hereinafter set forth and finally embraced in the clauses of the claim.

Referring to the accompanyingdrawings, in which like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the several views, Figure 1 is a plan showing the button or badge from the back or rear. Fig. 2 is a front or inside view of the rear plate of the badge or button and the pin hinged thereto. Fig. 3 is a section taken on line m, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 presents a plan and side view of the pin in detail. Fig. 5 is an inside plan of a por tion of the collet, showing a certain tongue before bending.

In said drawings, a indicates the sheetmetal back-plate of the button, which is pressed by suitable dies to form at the back of said plate an annular rib a at the margin and at the center or within said rib a central depression, aperture, or recess a in which latter an advertising-card may be inserted and protected. When the central metal of Serial No. 732,890. (Nomodeh) the back-plate is not struck out or removed, the back'of this back-plate as a whole may be highly polished, giving to the button ahig'h finish, which is sometimes desirable. How ever, I do not wish to limit myself to the construction shown, as the center may be otherwise formed, as heretofore.

The front or interior side of the back-plate a is provided with an annular groove of, corresponding to the rib a, and outside of the said groove a flange a is formed by the forward bending of the metal in forming said groove and the rib corresponding thereto. The flange lies at the periphery of the backplate and is overlapped in the completed but ton by the shell or front plate 0 (indicated in outline in Fig. 3) in the manner common in this class of button-badges. 7

At one side of the back-plate,at the extreme edge of the flange a and preferably integral therewith, is formed a tongue 15, and a little in from said tongue, at about the crown or crest of the rib, the sheet metal is pressed farther back for a short distance parallel with or in the direct-ion of the rib, forming at the back of the button a short boss 61, as in Fig. l

. 1, and at the inside of the back-plate, at the groove thereof,a correspondingly-short recess or socket d, Fig. 5, of a size transversely about equal to or a little greater than the thickness of the pin 6, near the'end opposite the pointed end thereof.

At one end of the short recess or socket the collet is provided with a pin-perforation f (shown more clearly in Fig. 5) of a size to permit a lengthwise passage to the pin e. The said pin e is bent, as shown more clearly in Fig. 4:, where said pin is shown to be bent laterally at e to form a pivotal extension c of about the length of the socket d and again bent, as at a to form a stop extension the extension e being adapted to oscillate within the groove a at the back of the button and the extension e to engage the side walls of said groove to limit the pivotal movement of the pointed body portion of the pin.

At the side of the back-plate opposite the recess d or socket-seat for the pin the collet is provided with a pin-fastening tongue 9, pressed out of the sheet metal, so that it projects back from the rear face of the back plate, as indicated in Fig. 3, to receix e the pointed end of the ;pin in a manner common to whatis shownin one of mypatentsbe'fore referred 'to.

The body of the pin is thrust through the perforat'iqnf, and'the pivotal extension 6 at right angles to the said body is brought to lie said tongue through the openings 9' g at the longitudinally in the socket d, after which the tongue b is turned over to lie against-the inside of the back-plate, in the groove thereof, closing the socket and holding the pin in positive pivotal relation to the said back-plate, and yetpermitting the limited oscillation of the extension a. At the exposedb'ack of the back-plate the pointed pinebody e isfreeto oscillate to and from its fastening-tongueg, the pointed end entering sidewise beneath opposite sides thereof. After the application of the pin-'tothe back-plate in the manner described the latter may be attached to theshell or'front-plate or be placed in the market to be so attached by the button-makersin any suitable manner.

.I ameaware that modifications orvariations .maybemade in the button or badge from the descriptiongiven-above in positive terms and expressions without departure from thespirit orscope of the invention, and I do not, there-' I fore; desire to bevlimited by such descriptive ofthe art may require.

terms and expressions, excepting as the state Having thus described the invention,-what I claim as new is 1. In a badge, the combination with the. back-plate pressed to form an annularrib with the convexity on the outside, the said -rib:being provided with a perforation at one. side and a pin-.point-receiving tongue onthe: diametrically opposite side, saidplate-beingalso provided with an integral peripheral tongue bent inward to lie against the pin on the inside of the said plate, and saidpin bent EliOfOIBl a pivotal extension at the back and extending through the perforation diametrically across the outside of the button to engagethe pin-point-receiving tongue and held in place by the inwardly-bent peripheral tongue,substantially as set forth.

2. A'rear part for badges comprisinga plate having an annular groove, a socket at said groove and a perforation at one end of said tension in said, groove, a pivotal extension in said socket and a body portion extending ithrough'saidperforation and having a pointed =end'at the back of said rear, part, substantially as set forth.

3. The improved rear part for -badges comprisinga plate having at the edge thereofa .tongue-and-near-said edge a socket-andper- "foration, and'a pivotal pinarranged in said perforation and in said socket, the said tongue being bent down over said'pin-in said socket, substantially asset forth.

.4. Theimproved rear-part forbadges com- ,prising a plate having at one sidean annular rib andcentral recess and on the' opposite side an annular groove and flange a and having at onesidea'socket, tongue-andper- *foration and at the opposite side apin-Ipointreceiving tongue and a pointedpin bent near theend opposite thepo'intand having-a pivotal'extension and limiting extension, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereuntoset my hand this 20th day of September, 1899.

AUGUSTUS PHELPS.

socket, and a bent pin having a limiting ex- Witnesses.

CHARLES H. PELL, O. B. PITNEY. 

